Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              the Aire which partaketh of that motion to diſtend ſo low as to
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              the Tops of the higheſt Hills, and that likewiſe they would reach
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              to the Earth, if thoſe Mountains did not impede them, which
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              agreeth with what you ſay: For as you affirm, the Air, which is
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              invironed by ledges of Mountains, to be carried about by the
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              aſperity of the moveable Earth; we on the contrary ſay, That
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              the whole Element of Air is carried about by the motion of
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              Heaven, that part only excepted which lyeth below thoſe bodies,
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              which is hindred by the aſperity of the immoveable Earth. </s>
              <s>And
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              whereas you ſaid, That in caſe that aſperity ſhould be removed,
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              the Air would alſo ceaſe to be whirld about; we may ſay,
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              That the ſaid aſperity being removed, the whole Aire would
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              tinue its motion. </s>
              <s>Whereupon, becauſe the ſurfaces of ſpacious
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              Seas are ſmooth, and even; the Airs motion ſhall continue upon
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              thoſe, alwaies blowing from the Eaſt: And this is more ſenſibly
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              perceived in Climates lying under the Line, and within the
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              picks, where the motion of Heaven is ſwifter; and like as that
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              Celeſtial motion is able to bear before it all the Air that is at
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              liberty, ſo we may very rationally affirm that it contributeth the
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              ſame motion to the Water moveable, as being fluid and not
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              nected to the immobility of the Earth: And with ſo much the
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              more confidence may we affirm the ſame, in that by your
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              feſſion, that motion ought to be very ſmall in reſect of the efficient
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              Cauſe; which begirting in a natural day the whole Terreſtrial
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              Globe, paſſeth many hundreds of miles an hour, and eſpecially
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              towards the Equinoctial; whereas in the currents of the open Sea,
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              it moveth but very few miles an hour. </s>
              <s>And thus the voiages
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              wards the Weſt ſhall come to be commodious and expeditious,
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              not onely by reaſon of the perpetual Eaſtern Gale, but of the
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              courſe alſo of the Waters; from which courſe alſo perhaps the
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              Ebbing and Flowing may come, by reaſon of the different
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              ation of the Terreſtrial Shores: againſt which the Water coming
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              to beat, may alſo return backwards with a contrary motion, like
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              as experience ſheweth us in the courſe of Rivers; for according as
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              the Water in the unevenneſs of the Banks, meeteth with ſome
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              parts that ſtand out, or make with their Meanders ſome Reach or
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              Bay, here the Water turneth again, and is ſeen to retreat back
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              a conſiderable ſpace. </s>
              <s>Upon this I hold, That of thoſe effects
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              from which you argue the Earths mobility, and alledge it as a
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              cauſe of them, there may be aſſigned a cauſe ſufficiently valid,
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              retaining the Earth ſtedfaſt, and reſtoring the mobility of
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              Heaven.</s>
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              It is
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              ted inverting the
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              argument, that
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              the perpetual
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              tion of the Air
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              from Eaſt to Weſt
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              cometh from the
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              motion of Heaven?
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              It is demonſtrated
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              inverting the
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              gument, that the
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              perpetual motion of
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              the Air from Eaſt
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              to Weſt, cometh
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              from the motion of
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              Heaven.
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              The motion of the
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              Water dependeth
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              on the motion of
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              Heaven.
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              The flux and
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              flux may depend
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              on the diurual
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              tion of Heaven.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It cannot be denied, but that your diſcourſe is ingenious,
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              & hath much of probability, I mean probability in appearance, but
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              not in reality & exiſtence: It conſiſteth of two parts: In the firſt it </s>
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